X-112

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Collins

This revolutionary ground effect craft was designed by Dr. Alexander Lippisch in 1963. It is a single seat experimental vehicle that successfully demonstrated the possibilities of stable ground effect flight. After completion of a number of towing tests behind a speedboat a 19 kW engine was installed in the nose of the X-112. Later the patents were bought by RFB where the development of this configuration was continued.

The X-112 has been in the posession of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin since the early 1970's, although it was off-display and in storage for a number of years. It was in quite good condition when it was last seen in 1998 although it is probably not flyable anymore.

At the Museum of Flight in Seattle there is a X-112 look-alike in very bad shape. It was probably an attempt to copy the X-112. It is not on display

Technical data

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Plan views

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Pictures of X-112

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picture	size (b)	by	description
	45493	Collins	Side view of X-112 in cruise
	19910	Collins	X-112 in very low ground effect cruise
	21532	Collins	X-112 in displacement mode
	8703	Collins	X-112 in a slight turn
	24276	Terry	X-112 in a museum

Movies of X-112

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movie	size (kb)	remarks
	604	Here is the X-112, the very first Lippisch type WIG in history ! The renowed German engineer Alexander Lippisch designed this craft for Radio Collins Inc. which had ask him to think about a new type of high speed boat. Movie provided by: Hanno Fischer - EAGES

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